Thursday, April 17, 2008

My encryption public key

This is neato! With all this talk about email imposters, and the government snooping everywhere, I thought it was a good idea to look into encryption. I got Firegpg which can be used with gmail. You first create a public and private key. The public key you can put on your website, or email it to people. You keep the private key. Here's my public key:

-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)

mQGiBEgHonsRBADDWUvOXR5JGKVvujMZydMWX0XD4xHbTNLgLCF8d5Zid2IaOa/j
7iNTtnoe5pmUxX2E3Ckzab9tOFO9lvce4qMq2f4yl452Tb6uGpcK6MFGaNW7fOgj
YpzNiwsZ6w9ZnPGoJHtcnNvPVl3hnKkwTSKuHbHey7UTwUYgax8Prvc/CwCg+LIh
C5ZcWOEHuO0I1/ulg4hhebkD/2UKR5IoeZ+TaWX0cWxU4BXJLVIY1AZ4y52JN29e
x6bvA9TSW50WYu55U9WIyS/lAWwk+H0Bw36E6vPtkiTbk0WkQmZapP5p3kztOW2J
VZ4q53kpB0Q9ihjO8ioflDL4hj0A23f1FC8IVVlLLQs5cI9ujxFKr39IaMXxxAXd
ntadA/0Rt1mcDsPs4eGaOVt2Fw+QqDqQc0tfIK8foDklGbRsEwnnhKvK7kw7K8y2
O9y1q4121xiEwu0qb8GBtPxEgKmYhK2A4Bzx5ElCu8AwwH8NilTryX4NV9u/e3xW
HoQqyEkx+/2hrw+ATbyzV37u3pcC+PjTv14SntDtbRV94W1qZrQfSGFyb2xkIEFz
bWlzIDxoYXNtaXNAZ21haWwuY29tPohgBBMRAgAgBQJIB6J7AhsjBgsJCAcDAgQV
AggDBBYCAwECHgECF4AACgkQotEtG/8efxCW/gCbB7d3X7ol2jvJsae84cb3AaRH
rJcAnAttEFDx8CWDY7Ccq8il4gI9YFPNuQINBEgHookQCADs68WlGyppk29BOTJl
/CUGKwkwSFBu4lQ0ciDBUxQv8ZLA+KKq9diWP6UhHAxPnKpM60NqeAHMO071ZOUt
FFBQt/oZt60a+9EwqxR0my+30+bvE774b3SlaLpX+8yU1GRtUhI212+FrpkEys4G
k2ZW6BINuuHPVTckTMC5ymnR9W3vbnbweDdLyczJ1Kg/wpKQ7oQoWxHg/i82g+Nf
whAflp13S4AlQ+tCCGWm1Z8YX+TK697sCAJSZ/2zmI/dARX4ylNW4mKcSPCG5s8U
ZvuhPR+pcFP+TWO8n8eirpxH4zzRXwpADl6plzvQCSEdRbsGLqu7sFTf7P2F+TB2
khPPAAMHCADZc1AS4fbE8PRXSpwjiWxC51kQzPjwHziGhI7gGQJHmgJGtcUAz+0/
w8zY5vCUeqx0qmQlCBmbY8u3UCiZ1pMWbddDdrX777zBSQceVszJRxZsxCJhyg1L
7/3bQ+kvMUfJovo012/8yvzFu1fjs7V71iU76F3kvbJmO9271otRJhWrAuLRv+oe
Hzo4TjaUC5E4rV8Nxv/zzLbkbUxEIYegh3qqubNy/cSQYnI+3DnKdbjyHMItgRQU
BvQ2tu8hzQ9bGMzQ0jGUuTG2FjuGdHxGMpElA2o2JnTxZQFEqe3CQ+RgACbR6WNl
wOjPiiC0CKd7D7+pnvyhM1HQe/Le0k6ViEkEGBECAAkFAkgHookCGwwACgkQotEt
G/8efxAuIACdF6e9Sc4zH1w0gLCJSDzlNVQ8XNQAnRUlSs64ePX2B3i6j83Isn/u
q4lA
=d3FY
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

You put that into a file Harold_Asmis.asc and import it. Now I can sign all my emails, and you can verify it came from me. If you really want to up it up a notch, you encrypt the whole message with my public key and send it to me. Only I can decrypt it.

I think if more people start using this for garbage mail, then it provides a good cover, in case you need it for real (I'm thinking Corporate here!).

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